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Today marks the 115th birth anniversary of India’s hockey legend Major Dhyan Chand. In his honour, the day is celebrated as the National Sports Day in India. Since morning, tributes have poured in for the legend and some quarters have demanded that he should be conferred with India’s highest civilian honour i.e. the Bharat Ratna.... Continue Reading →
Picture Credits- Live Law On 14 August, 2020 i.e. a day before India’s 74th Independence Day, the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India convicted advocate Prashant Bhushan for the offence of Contempt of Court. Mr. Bhushan was found guilty for two of his tweets wherein he had made remarks on the incumbent Chief Justice of India... Continue Reading →
[Happy 74th Independence Day to my fellow Indians!] 74 years ago, India attained independence from its erstwhile colonial masters. On the eve of 15 August 1947 Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru (first Prime Minister of India) made his famous ‘Tryst with Destiny’ speech wherein he remarked that ‘at the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world... Continue Reading →
10 August 2020, marks the 45th anniversary of the Constitution (Thirty-Ninth Amendment) Act, 1975. The Constitutional Amendment was passed during the infamous Emergency in India, with the aim of nullifying the Allahabad High Court’s judgment which had quashed Mrs. Indira Gandhi’s election on grounds of electoral malpractice. The Amendment took away the power of the... Continue Reading →
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